James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

On July 12, 2026, we celebrated four years of Webb science! And what a time it has been! We've learned so much about our universe and ourselves.

Here are some of our favorite images and most interesting science results in the form of a little retrospective in six parts, by year, which we will link in all the captions below. Each collage highlights science from the main science themes: Early Universe, Other Worlds, Galaxies, and Star Lifecycles.

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Cartwheel Galaxy in the mid-infrared. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

Tarantula Nebula, a star-forming region. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team.

WASP-39 spectrum, showing the first clear evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. Credit: Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, and L. Hustak (STScI) Science: The JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team.

Galaxy cluster MACS0647. Within the image there are three views (orange smudges) of the same distant galaxy, which have been magnified, distorted, and repeated due to the gravitational lensing effect of the galaxy cluster. Credit: Science: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and Tiger Hsiao (Johns Hopkins University) Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI).

Wolf-Rayet 140. The bright dot is actually two stars meeting, their orbits bringing them together every eight years. The stellar pair are surrounded by 17 rings of gas and dust that appear orangish pink, like the rings of a tree trunk. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, JPL-Caltech.

Jupiter, striated with swirling horizontal stripes of neon turquoise, periwinkle, light pink, and cream. The stripes interact and mix at their edges like cream in coffee. Along both of the poles, the planet glows in turquoise. Bright orange auroras glow just above the planet’s surface at both poles. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Judy Schmidt.

See our gallery of Webb's images and data from 2022:
www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums/7217772030...

First Images: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393938950/

2022: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393675403/

2023: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393726239/

2024:h www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541751/

2025: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55392607987/

2026...so far! www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541756/

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

On July 12, 2026, we celebrated four years of Webb science! And what a time it has been! We've learned so much about our universe and ourselves.

Here are some of our favorite images and most interesting science results in the form of a little retrospective in six parts, by year, which we will link in all the captions below. Each collage highlights science from the main science themes: Early Universe, Other Worlds, Galaxies, and Star Lifecycles.

This image:

2025: Clockwise ->

The Red Spider planetary nebula, the remnants of a Sun-like star that shed its layers leaving behind a white dwarf star. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology).

Abell S1063, Webb’s deepest look back on a single target to date as of 2025. This field of galaxies is dominated by an enormous, bright-white elliptical galaxy that is the core of a massive galaxy cluster. Short, curved, glowing red lines are images of distant background galaxies magnified and warped by gravitational lensing. A couple of foreground stars appear large and bright with long spikes around them. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Atek, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) Acknowledgement: R. Endsley.

Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud, an active star-forming region in our galaxy, seen in the mid-infrared, showing glowing cosmic dust heated by young stars. Credit: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Adam Ginsburg (University of Florida), Nazar Budaiev (University of Florida), Taehwa Yoo (University of Florida); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI).

Barred spiral Galaxy NGC 2283, seen close up and almost face on, filled with puffy, patchy clouds of hot gas and dust. Star clusters hide in the gas along the arms. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy.

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e spectrum. This system has many rocky planets, including some in its habitable zone. This data indicates the absence of a thick hydrogen-rich atmosphere for planet “e.”. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Joseph Olmsted (STScI). Uranus and moons, including a new one discovered by Webb.

Uranus and its rings, and beyond are 14 moons appearing as points of light. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M. El Moutamid (SwRI), M. Hedman (University of Idaho)

See our gallery of Webb's images and data from 2025:
www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums/7217772032...


First Images: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393938950/

2022: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393675403/

2023: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393726239/

2024:h www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541751/

2025: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55392607987/

2026...so far! www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541756/

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

On July 12, 2026, we celebrated four years of Webb science! And what a time it has been! We've learned so much about our universe and ourselves.

Here are some of our favorite images and most interesting science results in the form of a little retrospective in six parts, by year, which we will link in all the captions below. Each collage highlights science from the main science themes: Early Universe, Other Worlds, Galaxies, and Star Lifecycles.

This image:

2024: Clockwise ->

Spiderweb protocluster, a galaxy cluster in formation 10 billion light years away. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Dannerbauer.

Epsilon Indi Ab. A direct image of the coldest, most Jupiter-like exoplanet to be imaged so far. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Elisabeth Matthews (MPIA).

Westerlund 1, one of the closest super star clusters, with 50,000 to 100,000 times the mass of the Sun, contained in a region less than six light years across. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), M. G. Guarcello (INAF-OAPA) and the EWOCS team.

The Crab Nebula shown in a Webb and Chandra X-ray Observatory composite of these remnants of a supernova explosion, first documented in the year 1054. The central super-dense neutron star causes energetic winds to collide with the gas surrounding it, resulting in X-ray emission. Credit: X-ray, Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared, Webb: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major.

Spiral galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 in the mid-infrared. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot observed by Webb’s Integral Field Unit on the NIRSpec. The IFU is able to match spectroscopy data with spatial data to help paint a picture of the motion of gas, in this case hydrogen molecules in Jupiter’s ionosphere. The redder colors are higher altitudes and the blue from lower, including the cloud-tops in the atmosphere. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, Jupiter ERS Team, J. Schmidt, H. Melin, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb).

See our gallery of Webb's images and data from 2024: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums/7217772031...


First Images: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393938950/

2022: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393675403/

2023: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393726239/

2024:h www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541751/

2025: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55392607987/

2026...so far! www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541756/

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

On July 12, 2026, we celebrated four years of Webb science! And what a time it has been! We've learned so much about our universe and ourselves.

Here are some of our favorite images and most interesting science results in the form of a little retrospective in six parts, by year, which we will link in all the captions below. Each collage highlights science from the main science themes: Early Universe, Other Worlds, Galaxies, and Star Lifecycles.

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2023: Clockwise ->

Uranus, surrounded by rings. Several bright blue point are the planet’s moons. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

Star cluster IC 348, containing three free-floating brown dwarfs that are less than eight times the mass of Jupiter. The wispy curtains filling the image are interstellar material reflecting the light from the cluster’s stars. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Kevin Luhman (PSU), Catarina Alves de Oliveira (ESA).

Sagittarius C (Sgr C). A 50 light-years-wide portion of the Milky Way’s dense center, with an estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the region, along with some as-yet unidentified features. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Samuel Crowe (UVA).

Galaxy cluster SDSS J1226+2152 in the constellation Coma Berenices has such immense mass that it distorts and magnifies the light from more distant galaxies behind it — giving these galaxies their stretched out shape. The effect is known as gravitational lensing, and it allows astronomers to study some of the most distant galaxies in the universe. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Rigby and the JWST TEMPLATES team.

LHS 475b spectrum, the first use of Webb to confirm an exoplanet. The graphic shows the transmission spectrum of the rocky exoplanet, showing a lack of a detectable quantity of any element or molecule, potentially indicating no atmosphere. Credit: Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, Leah Hustak (STScI); Science: Kevin Stevenson (APL), Jacob Lustig-Yaeger (APL), Erin May (APL), Guangwei Fu (JHU), Sarah Moran (University of Arizona).

Supernova remnant Cass A in the near infrared. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, D. Milisavljevic (Purdue), T. Temim (Princeton), I. De Looze (Ghent University), with image processing by J. DePasquale (STScI)

See our gallery of Webb's images and data from 2023:
www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums/7217772030...


First Images: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393938950/

2022: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393675403/

2023: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393726239/

2024:h www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541751/

2025: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55392607987/

2026...so far! www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541756/

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

On July 12, 2026, we celebrated four years of Webb science! And what a time it has been! We've learned so much about our universe and ourselves.

Here are some of our favorite images and most interesting science results in the form of a little retrospective in six parts, by year, which we will link in all the captions below. Each collage highlights science from the main science themes: Early Universe, Other Worlds, Galaxies, and Star Lifecycles.

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July 12, 2022, Webb’s first images. Clockwise ->

The “Cosmic Cliffs” of the Carina Nebula, a star-forming region.

The Southern Ring Nebula in mid-infrared, now known to have two stars at its center, a dying star and a partner, both shaping the nebula’s intricate rings.

WASP 96-b spectrum, showing this planet to be large and hot with a “puffy” atmosphere, orbiting very close to its Sun-like star.

Stefan’s Quintet of galaxies in the near-infrared. Four of these five galaxies are colliding, stretching and pulling on each other: two in the middle, one toward the top, and one toward the bottom. The one to the upper left is actually much closer to us.

Galaxy Cluster SMACS 0723, the first image released by Webb, and the deepest and sharpest image of the early universe ever taken as of its release. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view with varying colors and shapes. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center; these are distant galaxies being warped by the extreme gravity of the galaxy cluster in front of it.

The Southern Ring Nebula but in the near-infrared.

Credits for all images: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

See all of Webb's first images in this gallery: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums/7217772030...

First Images: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393938950/

2022: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393675403/

2023: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393726239/

2024:h www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541751/

2025: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55392607987/

2026...so far! www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541756/

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